OPEN CALL:Master of Fine Arts 2019 in Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
Idyllically located on the river banks in Umeå, a fast-growing and thriving university city with 37,000 students, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts …
ART-PRESENTATION: Liz Magor-Blowout
Liz Magor’s work finds its center in the peripheral, often replicating the overlooked trappings of daily life and re-presenting them in new …
PHOTO:Implicit Tensions -Mapplethorpe Now,Part I
In the thirty years since his death, Robert Mapplethorpe has become a cultural icon. One of the most critically acclaimed and controversial …
ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Claudia Comte
Claudia Comte’s work is defined by her interest on the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand …
ART-PRESENTATION: Allen Ruppersberg-Intellectual Property 1968/2018,Part I
Among the artists of Conceptual art’s first wave and one of its most rigorous and inventive figures, Allen Ruppersberg has since the …
ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Maryam Jafri
For the past fifteen years Maryam Jafri has worked across varied media including expanded sculpture, video, and photography, with a specific interest …
DESIGN:The Value of Good Design,Part I
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape in …
ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jacqueline de Jong
Jacqueline de Jong was involved in European Avant-Garde networks in the 1960s, including the Gruppe SPUR and the politically engaged Situationist International …
PHOTO:Isabella Rozendaal-Isabella Hunts
Isabella Rozendaal is a documentary photographer. Her work is driven by contrast. Whenever possible, she tries to create images that are at …
ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken edits together frenetic and unique models of contemporary experience to create a new landscape, one in which he hopes we …
ART-PRESENTATION: Laure Prouvost AM-BIG-YOU-US LEGSICON
Laure Prouvost is an artist who makes complex installations involving video works characterised by layered stories, surreal humour and wordplay. The artist’s …
ART CITIES:London-Flora Yukhnovich
Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions …
ART PRESENTATION: Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean
Jeff Koons is one of America’s most popular contemporary artists. His Neo-Pop aesthetics anappropriations of consumer objects, express a reverence for popular …
ART CITIES:Oslo-Sun and Spring in January
The exhibition, “Sun and Spring in January-Next Generation in Norwegian Contemporary Art” focuses on a new generation of Norwegian contemporary artists who …
ART-PRESENTATION: Nick Oberthaler-SEQUEL
In his compositions, Nick Oberthaler uses numerous media: photographs, photocopies of images found in books, magazines or on the internet… The finishings …
ART CITIES:London-Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin moved to London in 1989 to study at the Royal College of Art, where she first came into contact with, …
ART-PRESENTATION: Kiki Smith Makes A Donation to Munich Museum
The German-born and New York–based artist Kiki Smith has donated her entire oeuvre of published prints to the State Graphic Collection of …
ART CITIES:Paris, Ja’Tovia-Gary
Ja’Tovia M. Gary is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Gary’s work seeks to liberate the …
ART CITIES:Istanbul-Prisoners of Correct History
Naeem Mohaiemen’s projects explore the intersecting regional histories of South Asia and its leftist uprisings and the role of misrecognition within global …
PHOTO:Don McCullin
In photojournalism the photographer is simply a witness on the sidelines, not involved with what is taking place in front of his …
ART-PRESENTATION: Walter De Maria-Idea to Action to Object
Walter de Maria bridged multiple movements of artistic practice in the 1960s creating interactive sculptural installations and providing conceptual underpinnings to larger-scale …
ART CITIES:Berlin-Objects of Wonder
Including 70 characteristic works by leading sculptors from Tate’s Collection, the exhibition “Objects of Wonder- British Sculpture 1950s – Present” provides a …
ART-PRESENTATION: Chinese Whispers,Part II
A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995–1998), Uli Sigg had the chance to take a …
BOOK:Sarah Lucas-Au Naturel,Phaidon Publications
Sarah Lucas arrived on the English Art Scene via the 1988 group exhibition “Freeze”, alongside several other young British artists coming out …